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What is the easiest procedure to replace a failed boot drive in a Windows software RAID1?

I have an HP ML350 with two 1TB Hot Plug SATA hard drives.  It's running Windows Server 2008R2 with a software RAID 1 and Disc 0 has failed.  It will randomly allow me to boot to the bad drive, but only stays online for about 5 minutes and shuts down.  This is the only customer I have who uses software RAID instead of hardware RAID, so I'm not familiar with it's functionality.  I have a new identical replacement 1TB hard drive, but would like some guidance for replacing this before I go onsite.  Could someone give me step by step instructions?

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Thank you for the suggestion rindi.  Turns out the disc I thought was good had too many bad sectors to re-mirror, so I'm doing a reload and restore from backup.
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I agree and I do this for my customers who have support contracts with me.  This particular customer declined our support & monitoring service and choose to "pay on a per incident basis".